ffupdater/CHANGELOG.md

2023-03-05 Release 77.7.10 (136)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: gallegonovato, Juraj Motuz, Retrial, MkQtS, 109247019824, Giovanni Donisi, gnu-ewm, nautilusx, Oğuz Ersen and meep
• Dont download updates in the background when the data saver is enabled
• Kiwi is now EOL
• Improve error messages
• Bug fixes

2023-02-28 Release 77.7.9 (135)

• Fix Chromium crash

2023-02-28 Release 77.7.8 (134)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: Juraj Motuz, Retrial, gallegonovato and Michael Bæk
• Firefox Nightly is now fixed: Use the correct Proguard rule and annotation for Gson classes.

2023-02-27 Release 77.7.7 (133)

• Thanks Jerry Jean-Baptiste for fixing Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly (Tobi823/ffupdater#353)
• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: Michael Bæk, mondstern, 109247019824, Retrial, gallegonovato and MkQtS

2023-02-19 Release 77.7.6 (132)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: nautilusx, gallegonovato, Juraj Motuz, MkQtS, Retrial and gnu-ewm
• Fix root installer

2023-02-06 Release 77.7.5 (131)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: Juraj Motuz, Retrial, gallegonovato and MkQtS
• fix download bug with Tor Browser / Tor Browser Alpha (Tobi823/ffupdater#336)
• refactor DownloadActivity.kt to make it more reliable

2023-02-05 Release 77.7.4 (130)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: nautilusx, Juraj Motuz, Retrial, gallegonovato and MkQtS
• Avoid weird UI inconsistencies caused by asynchronous storage of the latest available versions ( Tobi823/ffupdater#335)
• Add check to downloader: Any downloaded APK file must be a valid ZIP file. I hope to detect invalid downloads which will lead to strange error messages.

2023-02-04 Release 77.7.3 (129)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: gallegonovato, MkQtS, Juraj Motuz and Retrial
• Check file size of download and display warning + abort installation if the size is different (if possible)

2023-02-02 Release 77.7.2 (128)

• Fix the 'Unrecognized stream' exception (Tobi823/ffupdater#331, Tobi823/ffupdater#332)

2023-02-02 Release 77.7.1 (127)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributions from: 109247019824, Retrial, gallegonovato, Juraj Motuz, MkQtS, Snow, Oğuz Ersen and Giovanni Donisi
• Try to fix "LifecycleOwners must call register before they are STARTED." in DownloadActivity.kt (Tobi823/ffupdater#327, Tobi823/ffupdater#328, Tobi823/ffupdater#319)
• Try to fix "PackageManagerUtil.getPackageArchiveInfo can't parse APK file" bug by using flush(), buffered() and fsync() (Tobiwan/ffupdater#116)
• Fixed the "Failed requirement" bug in ShizukuInstaller.kt (Tobi823/ffupdater#330)

2023-01-29 Release 77.7.0 (126)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: SiniKraft, kotyhoroshko, Juraj Motuz, bryce-lynch, 109247019824, Retrial, nautilusx,gallegonovato and MkQtS
• BackgroundJob should retry multiple times before showing error notifications
• Improve cache of downloaded APK files
• Asks for notification permission on Android 13
• Fix UI bug in main view

2023-01-07 Release 77.6.3 (125)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: nautilusx, Juraj Motuz, MkQtS, gallegonovato, Retrial
• Adapt to new naming schema for Firefox Focus and Firefox Klar (Tobi823/ffupdater#307)

2023-01-05 Release 77.6.2 (124)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Giovanni Donisi, nautilusx, Jacek, Retrial, gallegonovato, Juraj Motuz, MkQtS, Oğuz Ersen
• Fix bug: if the user wants to add a new app, warn icon should only be displayed for apps with an installation warning (Tobi823/ffupdater#306)

2023-01-04 Release 77.6.1 (123)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Giovanni Donisi, Retrial, gallegonovato, Jacek, Oğuz Ersen, MkQtS
• Fix crash when the version of the installed Tor Browser is different than expected

2023-01-03 Release 77.6.0 (122)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Retrial, Jacek, gallegonovato, MkQtS, Coool (github.com/Coool), Oğuz Ersen, Marlon, mondstern
• Speed up the UI by using RecycleViews
• Add support for Tor Browser Alpha, DuckDuckGo Browser and Privacy Browser (from F-Droid)
• Add new type of notification for network errors
• Use new Github repository for Firefox Focus/Klar
• Add meta information for Huawei error codes
• Upgrade to Android 13 and update dependencies
• Improve regex searches in the code
• Improve async code with Channels
• Refactor and cleanup

2022-12-25 Release 77.5.0 (121)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Juraj Motuz, gallegonovato, nautilusx, Oğuz Ersen, Ettore Atalan, 109247019824, Retrial and Deleted User
• Add support for the Shizuku installer
• Add support for 64-bit Chromium
• Add option to choose between one or many (for each app) notification channels for update or install success or install failure notification
• Refactor and cleanup

2022-12-21 Release 77.4.0 (120)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Retrial, kotyhoroshko, Jacek, Viktória Nagy, gallegonovato, Oğuz Ersen, 109247019824, nautilusx, MkQtS, Yo, Juraj Motuz, Translator-3000, atilluF, Giovanni Donisi, Brodie Avoult, Eric
• Add support for HTTP/SOCKS-proxies with and without authentication (Tobi823/ffupdater#229)
• Add support for DNS-over-HTTPS server (Tobi823/ffupdater#229)
• Add option to prefer 32-bit versions of apps (Tobi823/ffupdater#280)
• Fix a race condition which displays a wrong installation failure reason
• Display additional information about an installation failure
• Display and update only apps which support the ABI of the current smartphone
• Fix bug: After installing the first update (with a notification), the second installation (with a notification) will reinstall the first update
• Improve error handling of the background job
• Add missing unit tests

2022-11-02 Release 77.3.5 (119)

• fix wrong signatureHash for Mull (divestos.org version)

2022-11-02 Release 77.3.4 (118)

• Mull (F-Droid version) is no longer supported. Please switch to Mull (divestos.org version) by installing it with FFUpdater or use F-Droid to update Mull (F-Droid version)
• improve handling of apps with different certificate fingerprints
• fix Mulch update failure for arm32 devices
• fix FennecFdroid.kt update failure for arm32 devices
• add unit tests
• cleanup

2022-11-02 Version 77.3.3 (117)

• Improve logging

2022-11-02 Version 77.3.2 (116)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Jacek, nautilusx, 109247019824, gallegonovato, Juraj Motuz, Oğuz Ersen and atilluF
• Fix Kiwi update check

2022-10-16 Version 77.3.1 (115)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Jacek, gallegonovato, atilluF, 109247019824, nautilusx, Juraj Motuz, Giovanni Donisi and Oğuz Ersen
• Fix Kiwi update bug: Ignore GitHub releases without APK files

2022-10-11 Version 77.3.0 (114)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: gallegonovato, atilluF, WhiredPlanck, Oğuz Ersen, Juraj Motuz, 109247019824, ppvnf, nautilusx, Giovanni Donisi, Eduardo Malaspina
• If the background update fails (due to missing user interaction), show the "update is available" notification
• Fix crash when checking for Mull (from F-Droid) updates
• Add Fennec from F-Droid
• Add Mulch

2022-09-11 Version 77.2.0 (113)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: John doe, Oğuz Ersen, atilluF, Vitor Henrique, 109247019824, nautilusx, Juraj Motuz, MkQtS, Giovanni Donisi, Artem and Eduardo Malaspina
• Add Chromium, Orbot, Tor,
• Improve UI for adding new applications
• Don't trust user CA on default (this can be disabled)
• Bugfixes
• Cleanup and refactor code

2022-07-12 Version 77.1.0 (112)

• Thanks for the Weblate contribution from: Oğuz Ersen and 109247019824
• Restore Iceraven
• Rework UI to allow the download of EOL apps

2022-07-10 Version 77.0.3 (111)

• Thanks for the Weblate contributors: WhiredPlanck, 109247019824, Oğuz Ersen, Giovanni Donisi, MkQtS and Hin Weisner
• Improve notification text when the background update check fails for five days in a row (old value: two days, but was too low for some users).
• Improve crash report and timestamp of last successful background update check

2022-07-04 Version 77.0.1 (109)

• Thanks for Juraj Motuz, Oğuz Ersen, WhiredPlanck, Deleted User, 109247019824 and Hin Weisner for improving the translation.
• Fix logic bug in extracting the signature from apps or apk files.

2022-07-03 Version 77.0.0 (108)

• Thanks for WhiredPlanck, Juraj Motuz, 109247019824, AbsurdUsername, Oğuz Ersen, MkQtS, Hin Weisner and Giovanni Donisi for improving the translation.
• Mark Ungoogled Chromium and Iceraven temporary as end-of-life.
• Add Mull browser.
• Improve caching of update information.
• Refactor/Improve source code.

2022-06-27 Version 76.0.1 (107)

• Thanks MkQtS, Viktória Nagy, 109247019824, AbsurdUsername, Oğuz Ersen, Artem, Hin Weisner for improving the translation.
• Mark Mozilla Lockwise as end-of-life (thanks p0yskaa for the information).
• Show warning when an end-of-life app is used.
• Cache UpdateCheckResult in preferences - this should be more reliable than the previous caching method
• Improve contrasts of colors.

2022-06-27 Version 76.0.0 (106)

• Thanks MkQtS, Viktória Nagy, 109247019824, AbsurdUsername, Oğuz Ersen, Artem, Hin Weisner for improving the translation.
• Mark Mozilla Lockwise as end-of-life (thanks p0yskaa for the information).
• Show warning when an end-of-life app is used.
• Cache UpdateCheckResult in preferences - this should be more reliable than the previous caching method
• Improve contrasts of colors.

2022-06-19 Version 75.5.3 (105)

• Thanks 109247019824, AHOHNMYC, Oğuz Ersen, Artem, Hin Weisner, AbsurdUsername and metezd for improving the translation
• Try to fix crashes when the download of updates failed in the background
• Add option to hide warning buttons

2022-06-09 Version 75.5.2 (104)

• Try to fix the "Can't find signatures of the APK file." bug

2022-06-08 Version 75.5.1 (103)

• Thanks for Hin Weisner, WhiredPlanck, Giovanni Donisi, Vitor Henrique, 109247019824, AHOHNMYC, Oğuz Ersen, ToldYouThat and Francois Marier for improving the translation
• Thanks Francois Marier for fixing the Brave updater logic - beta and nightly versions not tested by Q&A will be ignored (Tobiwan/ffupdater#105)
• Make FFUpdater more resilient for the cases when the signatures of an APK file can not be extracted
• Better handle temporary network issues
• Upgrade dependencies

2022-05-02 Version 75.5.0 (102)

• Thanks 109247019824, WaldiS and Oğuz Ersen for improving the translation
• Add Kiwi Browser Next

2022-04-28 Version 75.4.3 (101)

• Thanks 109247019824, Oğuz Ersen and Vitor Henrique for improving the translation
• Background job can be stopped more reliable by the operating system (Tobi823/ffupdater#148)
• Improve check for GitHub rate limit (Tobi823/ffupdater#152)

2022-04-28 Version 75.4.2 (100)

• Fix crash of session installer on OnePlus devices (Tobi823/ffupdater#153)

2022-04-27 Version 75.4.1 (99)

• Improve translations - thanks:
  • Oğuz Ersen: Turkish
  • 109247019824: Bulgarian
• Add option to use the older native installer for devices which buggy PackageInstaller implementation e.g. Samsung and Xiaomi (Tobi823/ffupdater#150)
• Better display the warnings/downsides for each browser
• Cleanup and refactor code

2022-04-23 Version 75.4.0 (98)

• Improve translations - thanks:
  • Allan Nordhøy: Norwegian Bokmål
  • Oğuz Ersen: Turkish
  • 109247019824: Bulgarian
  • J. Lavoie: Italien, French
• Show download progress in background download notification
• Add new settings for controlling the cache behaviour
• Remove the "retry installation" button from InstallActivity because it should no longer be necessary
• Fix bugs, cleanup code
• Integrate Weblate

2022-04-19 Version 75.3.0 (97)

• Add Brave Beta and Brave Nightly
• Add Turkish translation (thanks metezd - Tobi823/ffupdater#129)
• Add Bromite SystemWebView
• Support silent background updates for Android 12+ and rooted devices
• Try to improve the SessionInstaller

2022-04-17 Version 75.2.1 (96)

• Fix the "can't install a new app" bug
• Add Russian translation for the changelog (thanks Nickoriginal - Tobi823/ffupdater#127)

2022-04-10 Version 75.2.0 (95)

• If FFUpdater is installed from the GitHub/GitLab/Repository, it can update itself.
• Overhauled settings menu with more control over network and background activities.
• More background network retries to avoid unnecessary error messages

2022-04-08 Version 75.1.0 (94)

• Add Czech translation (thanks Juraj Motuz - Tobi823/ffupdater#122)
• Replace the Android DownloadManager with the library OkHttp

2022-03-18 Version 75.0.2 (93)

• Add Italian translation (thanks Giovanni - Tobi823/ffupdater#111)
• Update Bulgarian translation (thanks StoyanDimitrov - Tobi823/ffupdater#119)
• Update Russian translation (thanks Nickoriginal - Tobi823/ffupdater#116)
• Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks Ghost and ms - Tobiwan/ffupdater#98)
• Update dependencies

2022-03-01 Version 75.0.1 (92)

• Adapt Firefox Klar and Firefox Focus to the new file names in the Github repository (fix missed Focus/Klar updates)

2022-01-02 Version 75.0.0 (91)

• Remove Styx because it is not longer maintained (Tobi823/ffupdater#101).
• Improve version comparison with G00fY2/version-compare (Tobi823/ffupdater#98).
• Fix opt-out of apps from background update check ("Excluded applications") for Firefox Release, Firefox Beta and Firefox Nightly (Tobi823/ffupdater#97).
• Don't crash during app installation/update when no or only very little storage is available ( Tobi823/ffupdater#96).
• When app update is unsuccessful, show more detailed error message.
• Update dependencies

2021-12-05 Version 74.5.3 (90)

• Fix Brave update check

2021-11-08 Version 74.5.2 (89)

• Update warning for Vivaldi (thanks gnuhead-chieb - Tobi823/ffupdater#92)
• Make links in dialogs clickable

2021-11-07 Version 74.5.1 (88)

• Add Vivaldi (Tobiwan/ffupdater#89)
• Add Ungoogled Chromium (Tobi823/ffupdater#50)
• Update description of Firefox Klar (thanks cosify - Tobi823/ffupdater#91)
• Crash report can partially selected and copied
• Cleanup build scripts

2021-11-01 Version 74.5.0 (87)

• Improve internet check. (Tobi823/ffupdater#87)
  • Use the old network check API for Android 10 and below.
  • Handle network errors better in the app.
• Reduce storage usage for devices with low internal memory. (Tobiwan/ffupdater#88)
  • If an app update fails, keep the cached app update (APK file).
  • If an app update is successful or a critical error (wrong certificate fingerprint) occurs, delete the cached app update (APK file).
  • Download and keep the APK file in the Android/data/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/files/Download folder and use this folder as a cache folder.
  • Do not copy the downloaded APK file to a official cache folder which is invisible to the user.
  • User can delete the downloaded app updates (APK files) in the Android app settings > Storage > Manage Space.
  • If an app update fails, show buttons for:
  • deleting the app update in the cache folder.
  • opening the cache folder with a file manager app.
  • When migrating to this version, the app will delete old cache files.
• Update dependencies:
  • androidx.core:core-ktx to 1.7.0
  • androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-runtime-ktx to 2.4.0

2021-10-20 Version 74.4.7 (86)

• Fix "Permission Denial" bug on Android devices (Tobiwan/ffupdater#86)
• Speed-up app installation/update by not requiring to press a button
• Improve crash report styling and add important device information to the crash report
• Improve internal condition checks and add improved error messages
• Remove unused dependencies androidx.fragment:fragment-ktx and org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7

2021-10-25 Version 74.4.6 (85)

• Download only "Firefox Focus/Klar" and not "Firefox Focus/Klar Beta" (Tobi823/ffupdater#89)
• Try out the Android 12 "silent update" feature when user manual updates an app (Tobi823/ffupdater#88)

2021-10-07 Version 74.4.5 (84)

• Small mistake, I forget to add important changes to 74.4.4
• Improve handling of Kotlin coroutine errors (Tobiwan/ffupdater#85 Tobi823/ffupdater#86)
• Improve and speed up internet check
• Handle disabled "Download Manager" better
• Improve translation
• Update dependencies

2021-10-07 Version 74.4.4 (83)

• Improve handling of Kotlin coroutine errors (Tobiwan/ffupdater#85 Tobi823/ffupdater#86)
• Improve and speed up internet check
• Handle disabled "Download Manager" better
• Improve translation
• Update dependencies

2021-09-29 Version 74.4.3 (82)

• Improve handling of concurrent code
• Fix crash when starting app (NetworkOnMainThreadException) ()
• Fix missing icon (in repomaker and maybe F-Droid)
• Improve translation files
• Cleanup and refactor code

Version 74.4.2 (81)

• Skip version

2021-09-24 Version 74.4.1 (80)

• Fix crash when canceling a download (Tobi823/ffupdater#77)
• Ignore error and retry background update (with exponential increasing waiting time) for CancellationException, GithubRateLimitExceededException and UnknownHostException (Tobi823/ffupdater#74)
• Improve error handling
• Fix download error for Focus/Klar by switching to the GitHub API (Tobiwan/ffupdater#81)

2021-08-30 Version 74.4.0 (79)

• Update Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks mezysinc; Tobiwan/ffupdater#78)
• Abort background update check if airplane mode is enabled (Tobi823/ffupdater#74)
• Prevent simultaneous download by the background job and the user (Tobiwan/ffupdater#80)
• Reduce app permission (remove WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission)

2021-08-04 Version 74.3.5 (78)

• Fix update check for "Firefox Focus" and "Firefox Klar" (By removing everything after the dash + the dash itself from the version name of the installed app. "8.18.0-rc.1" will be converted to "8.18.0"; Tobi823/ffupdater#69)

2021-07-30 Version 74.3.4 (77)

• Make update check more robust for "Firefox Release", "Firefox Beta", "Firefox Focus" and "Firefox Klar"

2021-07-26 Version 74.3.3 (76)

• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Focus" or "Firefox Klar"
• Update Firefox Focus/Klar icon

2021-07-22 Version 74.3.2 (75)

• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Beta" (Tobi823/ffupdater#60)

2021-07-19 Version 74.3.1 (74)

• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Release" or "Firefox Beta" (Tobi823/ffupdater#57)

2021-07-06 Version 74.3.0 (73)

• Add Polish language (thanks Eryk Michalak, Tobiwan/ffupdater_gitlab#11)
• Fix crash when checking for "Firefox Release" updates (Tobi823/ffupdater#52)

2021-06-22 Version 74.2.0 (72)

• Add Japanese language (thanks gnuhead-chieb Tobi823/ffupdater#47)

2021-06-03 Version 74.1.1 (71)

• Fix Firefox Beta by adapting to the new structure of the chain_of_trust.log (Tobi823/ffupdater#44)

2021-05-29 Version 74.1.0 (70)

• Add Brave Browser because the APK files are published on GitHub again. (https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15878)

2021-05-18 Version 74.0.0 (69)

• Remove Brave Browser because the APK files are no longer published on GitHub. (https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/15878)

2021-05-18 Version 73.1.4 (68)

• Instruct user if app installation is aborted by "MIUI Optimization" (Tobi823/ffupdater#41)

2021-05-07 Version 73.1.3 (67)

• Fix crash caused by the new Firefox Nightly version name schema (Tobi823/ffupdater#40 Tobi823/ffupdater#66)

2021-04-25 Version 73.1.2 (66)

• If it is likely that it is just a network error during manual update search, then display "No network connection" instead of crashing (Tobi823/ffupdater#38)

2021-04-18 Version 73.1.1 (65)

• Fix wrong warning for Bromite (thanks mpeter, Tobiwan/ffupdater#64)

2021-04-18 Version 73.1.0 (64)

• Trust user certificates when checking for updates and downloading updates (for AdGuard, Tobi823/ffupdater#37)
• Prevent automatic backup of failed downloads by Google's "Auto Backup for Apps"

2021-04-17 Version 73.0.1 (63)

• There has been a discussion on Github if the Kiwi browser is spyware: https://github.com/Tobi823/ffupdater/issues/35 (Tobi823/ffupdater#35) I think that Kiwi is not spyware but stays removed because FFUpdater is about privacy and Kiwi has no additional privacy features. F-Droid users can use other stores (like Aurora Store) to install the Kiwi browser.
• Bug fix: automatically download app updates after disabling airplane mode
• Bug fix: catch the JobCancellationException correctly (occurs when changing the network during background update check)

2021-04-17 Version 73.0.0 (62)

• Remove Kiwi Browser because it is at least not privacy friendly and in the worst case a spyware (thanks nyanpasu64 Tobi823/ffupdater#35)

2021-04-13 Version 72.1.0 (61)

• Add support for Bromite https://github.com/bromite/bromite (Tobiwan/ffupdater#59 Tobi823/ffupdater#22)
• Add support for Kiwi Browser https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src (Tobi823/ffupdater#22)
• Automatically download app updates in the background if the current network is unmetered and the device has enough storage (Tobi823/ffupdater#34)
• Cache already downloaded updates (Tobi823/ffupdater#33)
• Keep the last version of an app in the folder "/sdcard/Android/data/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/cache/Download" for manual downgrading. These cached versions can be deleted by using the "CLEAR CACHE" button in the settings (Tobiwan/ffupdater#62)
• Decrease the number of false positives "background network exception" error notifications (thanks bershanskiy Tobi823/ffupdater#31)
• Improve Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks mezysinc; Tobiwan/ffupdater#58)
• Improve Russian translation (thanks DeenHyper74; Tobiwan/ffupdater#56)
• Make download status translatable (Tobiwan/ffupdater#57)
• Ask for confirmation when the user wants to update an app but the latest app version is already installed ( Tobiwan/ffupdater#60)
• Generate UI partially programmatically (and don't use a static UI)

2021-03-14 Version 72.0.0 (60)

• !!! Remove support for Firefox Light because updates are no longer signed and therefore pose a security risk (thanks opened and mega-stoffel)
• User can disable the background update check on metered networks (thanks williamtheaker)
• By clicking on the "i"-Icon, you can see the time of the last successful background update check.
• Fix Brazilian Portuguese translation (thanks mezysinc)
• Fix Bulgarian translation (thanks StoyanDimitrov)
• Fix spelling (thanks ku)
• Fix crash when rotating device (thanks floringolintchi)
• Distinguish the morning and evening version of Firefox Nightly (thanks DctrBnsttr)

2021-02-26 Version 71.0.3 (59)

• Fix crash when installing app on Android 8 (thanks bershanskiy)
• Show the correct notification if the background check failed due to a network exception (thanks Average_User and Diridibindy)
• If it's likely that the user has enabled 'MIUI Optimization', instruct him to disable it (thanks Rafa ML)

2021-02-21 Version 71.0.2 (58)

• Fix double download (thanks Redpillbug)
• Fix crash when rotating in the settings view (thanks DeenHyper74)

2021-02-18 Version 71.0.1 (57)

• Improve error message when the background update check failed (thanks duck-rh)

2021-02-15 Version 71.0.0 (56)

• Add Iceraven browser
• Display the real available versions for Release, Beta, Nightly, Focus and Klar
• Reduce likeliness of background errors
• Fix installation problems on older devices
• Migrate from Java to Kotlin for better concurrency
• Thanks StoyanDimitrov for updating the Bulgarian translation
• Bug fixes and many more
• Thanks mega-stoffel, Iey4iej3, Redpillbug, NANASHI0X74, StoyanDimitrov, lucker999, codingepaduli, borisovg, H-Sachse, mpeter, DeenHyper74, duck-rh, mikeklem and darkludao for bug reports
• Thanks CharmCityCrab, TheOneWithTheBraid, codingepaduli and User1l0 for feature requests

2020-11-13 Version 70.0.1 (55)

• Check if system download app is installed (thanks Quantumrider)
• Fix crash during downloading (thanks hsol)

2020-11-02 Version 70.0.0 (54)

• Add Bulgarian translation (thanks StoyanDimitrov)
• Fix short description in F-Droid (thanks linsui)
• Fix typo (thanks GPery and DeenHyper74)
• A different notification for each installed app will be displayed
• Clicking on notification will update the app
• Better detect ABI of device - Firefox Focus can be installed on Android emulators
• Use Crasher (https://github.com/fennifith/Crasher) for crash reports
• Delete old downloaded APK files more reliable
• Drop permission READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE because they should not be necessary
• Check and fail if external storage is not available
• Query GitHub API with less network traffic
• Cleanup code

2020-09-23 Version 69.0.5 (53)

• Disable error when the already installed app has a different signature (because Android won't install an update with a different signature) - thanks pheki for reporting this bug
• Add translations for this bug
• Make the installation activity a little big more resilient

2020-09-08 Version 69.0.4 (52)

• Fix old download urls / update check urls for Firefox Release and Firefox Beta - thanks DctrBnsttr for reporting this bug
• Add tests to ensure that FFUpdater is always using the latest download urls

2020-08-17 Version 69.0.3 (51)

• Fix broken Firefox Nightly installation/update - thanks 132ikl for reporting this bug

2020-08-13 Version 69.0.2 (50)

• Thanks aevw for adding brazilian portuguese translation

2020-08-12 Version 69.0.1 (49)

• Thanks DeenHyper74 for updating the russian translation

2020-08-05 Version 69.0.0 (48)

• Remove Fennec Release because it's no longer supported by Mozilla
• Rename Fenix Release, Fenix Beta and Fenix Nightly to Firefox Release, Firefox Beta, Firefox Nightly
• Fix download URLs for Firefox Release, Firefox Beta, Firefox Nightly
• Use the more reliable PackageInstaller-method for installing the apps (instead of the old ACTION_INSTALL_PACKAGE-method)
• Increase minimum SDK for FFUpdater to Lollipop/21 (because PackageInstaller needs 21 and all Firefox browsers need at least 21)
• Fix bug "empty installed text field"
• Thanks trymeout, guysoft, rantpalas and RomainL972 for reporting bugs

2020-07-02 Version 68.4.1 (47)

• Fix broken Fenix download - if the download is still broken for you, wait 10 minutes or delete the storage of the app
• Check for enough free space and display warning if < 100MB

2020-06-07 Version 68.4.0 (46)

• Add Fenix Beta, Fenix Nightly and Lockwise
• Download Fenix Release/Beta/Nightly, Focus and Klar from Mozilla's Taskcluster (continuous integration server)
• Fix "Light theme is always shown at first run"
• Thanks Rail Aliiev and Johan Lorenzo from Mozilla for their support https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627518
• Thanks KarlHeinz and DeenHyper74 for their error reporting and support

2020-05-20 Version 68.3.7 (42)

• Add simple crash reporter (by opening the mail app with the error message)
• Fix crash by asking for WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE and READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permissions
• Show progress bar when verifying the downloaded APK
• Download APK to the public download directory of the app (for example: /storage/sdcard0/Android/data/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/files/Download)
• Remove old debug messages
• Thanks yhoyhoj, UltraBlackLinux, rvandegrift, vikajon, wchen342, Ulfschaper, prox and danceswithcats for your error reporting

2020-05-18 Version 68.3 (35)

• Try to fix error "Failed to check certificate hash" by switching from apksig-library to PackageManager#getPackageArchiveInfo (thanks rvandegrift). This will reduce the size of FFUpdater and improve the maintenance for future releases.
• Color of collapsed title will be always white (thanks DeenHyper74)

2020-05-13 Version 68.2 (34)

• Fix Fenix download from Github (thanks yhoyhoj)
• Show correct download progress when downloading an app

2020-05-13 Version 68.1 (33)

• Thanks DeenHyper74 for the Russian translation
• Add support for Dark Theme (thanks DeenHyper74 for the tip)
• Add setting for switching between Dark and Light Theme

2020-05-06 Version 68.0 (32)

• Really big update
• Add support for Firefox Klar, Firefox Focus, Firefox Lite and Fenix
• Download and install the app inside FFUpdater (thanks wolfgang42 for the groundwork)
• Improve UI
• Verify the certificate of the downloaded and installed app
• Many improvements
• Thanks DeenHyper74 and xin for translations
• Remove Fennec Beta and Fennec Nightly because their are not developed anymore https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627518

2019-06-28 Version 67.4 (31)

• Fix warning dialogue disappears after screen rotation (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.3 (30)

• Fix crash when selecting an entry after rotating the channel dialog (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.2 (29)

• Fix crash when rotating on channel dialog (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.1 (28)

• Update Russian translation (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-06-28 Version 67.0 (27)

• Fix broken nightly download (thanks dannycolin for the info)
• Display warning when switching from 'Release' channel to the 'Nightly' or 'Beta' channel (thanks DeenHyper74)
• Interval between update checks is now configurable (thanks aplufr, wah6Me1l and DeenHyper74)

2019-04-25 Version 66.2 (26)

• Improve french translation (thanks xinxinxinxinxin)
• Fix "update notification will be shown every 5 minutes" (bug discovered by aplufr)

2019-04-25 Version 66.1 (25)

• Add grammar fixes (thanks DeenHyper74)

2019-04-25 Version 66.0 (24)

• Notification (for a Firefox update) now works on Android 9
• Replace BackgroundService with WorkManager (AndroidX) for requesting Mozilla's API
• Clean up code (thanks DeenHyper74)
• Fix some minor bugs (thanks DeenHyper74)
• App requires API level 18 because Firefox requires API level 18
• Update translation

2019-04-01 Version 65.0 (23)

• Added support for beta and nightly channels
• Switched to light theme
• Update russian translation
• Handover maintainership to https://notabug.org/Tobiwan/ffupdater

2018-01-07 Version 57.0 (22)

• Add some translations

2017-06-13 Version 54.0 (21)

• Add license report
• Update icon
• Add some translations

2017-05-20 Version 53.0 (20)

• Update to 53.0
• Use new Mozilla API to det version information
• Remove a lot of unused code.
• Add icon
• Fix crash with SDK < 17
• Enable smaller builds

2017-01-22 Version 51.0 (18)

• Update to 51.0
• Remove a lot of unused code.
• Re-implement actual checking.

2016-04-29 Version 46.0 (16)

• No changes, just bump to remind people

2016-04-06 Version 45.0.1 (15)

• Remove everything but URL generator and download button.

2016-03-09 Version 45.0a (14)

• Really, really quickfix Android6 issues..
• Remove version check since it's broken: Just download the APK.

2016-03-06 Version 45.0 (13)

• Use lower target to quickfix Android6 permissions

2016-01-26 Version 44.0 (12)

• Update to reflect new Firefox version, but no change in architecture. Mozilla "-latest" URL still works...

2015-12-31 Version 43.0.x (11)

• Mozilla removed /latest/* downloads from archive. As recommended in https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/latest/README.txt we use https://download.mozilla.org/?product=fennec-latest now.

2015-12-25 Version 43.0 (10)

• Update to 43.0
• Mozilla does not populate /latest/ anymore, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233399

2015-12-24 Version 42.0.2 (9)

• Update to 42.0.2

2015-11-23 Version 42.0.1 (8)

• Update to 42.0.1

2015-11-02 Version 42.0 (7)

• Update to 42.0

2015-09-23 Version 41.0 (6)

• Bump to 41.0 (6)

2015-09-01 Version 40.0.3 (5)

• Mark background setting as non-functional for now.
• Update to 40.0.3

2015-08-10 Version 40.0 (3)

• Remove FTP lookup since Mozilla is shutting down the servers.
• Handle both request type by a single button.
• "I am feeling lucky" now gets the next release, not the latest.
• Add preferences to restrict connections: WiFi-only, metered, roaming.
• Use actionbar.

2015-07-08 Version 39.0 (1)

• Select download uri based on arch and api.
• Check filename via FTP.
• Download update file via HTTPS and DownloadManager.
• Log errors and status.
• Toast on updates.
• Prompt for update (if necessary).
• Option to use fixed/tested download location.
• Add proper LICENSE (GPLv3+).